Describe 5 ways when women feels discrimination in India with example
Answers
Women in India face discrimination and oppression in various ways:
1) The literacy rate among women is only 54% compared with 76% among men. Similarly a smaller proportion of girl students go for higher studies. When we look at school results, girls perform as well as boys if not better in some places. But they dropout because parents prefer to spend their resources for their boys' education rather than spending equally on their sons and daughters.
2) No wonder the proportion of women among the highly paid and valued jobs is still very small. On an average an Indian women works 1 hour more than an average man everyday. Yet much of her work is not paid and therefore not valued.
3) the Equal Wages Act provides that equal wages should be played two equal work. However in almost all areas of work, from sports and cinema, to factories and fields, women are paid less than men, even when both do exactly the same work.
4) in many parts of India parents prefer to have sons and find ways to have the girl child aborted before she is born. Such sex-selective abortion led to the decline in child sex ratio (number of girl children per thousand boys) in the country to merely 933.